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I beat a brain tumor.
Arlen Specter / Former United States Senator
Beats
Brain
Brain Tumor
Beat
Tumor
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I went in for an operation to remove a brain tumor.
Lou Gramm / Vocalist
Brain
Operations
Remove
Operation
Tumor
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I don't want to be brain tumor girl. I don't want this to be my thing.
Simone Giertz /
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I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.
Tionne Watkins / Singer-Songwriter
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Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.
Elizabeth Holmes / Entrepreneur
Break
Fall
Doctor
Discover
Tumor
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Me being me, I put the numbers from my hospital's website from my tumor sizes into a spreadsheet.
Dave Debronkart /
Numbers
Website
Hospital
Sizes
Tumor
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Pregnancy is not a disease. The child in the womb is neither a tumor nor a parasite to be destroyed.
Chris Smith /
Destroyed
Disease
Pregnancy
Womb
Child
Neither
Nor
Parasite
Tumor
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I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
Tionne Watkins / Singer-Songwriter
Hardest Thing
Recovery
The Hardest Thing
Tumor
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I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.
Sandy Duncan / Singer
Eye
Nerves
Real
Nerve
Tumor
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I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
Jennifer Grey / Actress
Surgery
List
Spinal
Ticking
Tumor
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To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Frank Lloyd Wright / Architect
Artist
Cities
Looks
Big City
Cross-Section
Plan
Section
Tumor
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After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.
Mark Ruffalo / Actor
Acting
Brain
May
Tumor
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Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.
Kathryn Joosten / Television Actress
Cancer
Life Me My Life
Life Me Will
Anxieties
Cell
Fears
Someplace
Tumor
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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams / Historian
Men
Aggravation
Ends
Publicity
Self
Victim
Effect
Sympathies
Tumor
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I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
David Rakoff / Writer
Be Grateful
Bigger
Damn
Forever
Grateful
Hello
Opening
Percent
Door
Saying
Tumor
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I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
Lee Atwater / Consultant
American Society
Heart
Soul
Spiritual
Tumor
Vacuum
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The idea of printing out something that's as scary as a tumor into its concrete form was something that spoke to me - there is something very liberating about that idea.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Concrete
Liberating
Printing
Scary
Spoke
Tumor
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Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.
Eve Ensler / Playwright
Cancer
Disconnected
Size
Me Anything Know
Me Know Wrong
Tumor
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Where does my body end and an invader start? And cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue. How does that happen? Where does medical ability end and start?
Dave Debronkart /
Cancer
Invader
Tissue
Tumor
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Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.
Paul Stamets / Author
Bursting
Formation
Hardened
Looks
Mushrooms
Tree
Birch
Parasite
Trees
Tumor
Weirdest
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A tumor often grows silently and doesn't start making itself known until it's pushing on structures or organs or tissues around it in a way that starts to mess up the whole system.
Caterina Scorsone /
Grows
Mess
Organs
Pushing
Tumor
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You've got two veins; one carries blood directly to the body, one carries blood to the heart. That tumor was growing and was pressing on that vein. That vein was getting skinnier and skinnier.
James Conner /
Carries
Directly
Pressing
Tumor
Vein
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Age is the biggest risk factor for many diseases. You're 100 times more likely to get a tumor at age 65 than age 35. It makes a huge difference. It gives a whole new meaning to preventive medicine.
Cynthia Kenyon / Biologist
Age
Huge
Risk
Whole
Biggest
Difference
Diseases
Times
Factor
Gives
Huge Difference
Likely
Meaning
Preventive
Tumor
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I was going through some stressful stuff, and I lost feeling in my face and in my tongue. So I went to a doctor. He said he didn't think I had MS or a brain tumor. He said, 'I think you're just stressed out.'
Lisa Cholodenko /
Stressed
Tongue
Doctor
Ms
Tumor
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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'
Christopher Hitchens / Author
Chemotherapy
Feelings
Poison
Thinking
Now
Bad
Good I Am Feel
Good I Am Bad
Feeling
Good Thing
Making
Ok
Well
Supposed
Tumor
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The bad news is that my thin melanoma has something called mitosis, which means the cancer cells are dividing and multiplying even as I write. My thin melanoma has already spread outside of the tumor and into the deep layers of skin.
Jane Green / Author
Bad News
Cancer
Dividing
Layers
Multiplying
News
Spread
Skin
Thin
Tumor
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Having been an oncologist and having cared for scores, if not hundreds, of dying patients, when you don't have a treatment that can shrink the tumor and the patient will die, it's a very difficult conversation. It's emotionally draining.
Ezekiel Emanuel / Medical Doctor
Conversation
Draining
Dying
Oncologists
Patient
Treatment
Cared
Emotionally
Hundreds
Scores
Shrink
Tumor
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I get really excited about specific therapies, personalized therapies. Like, let's say, taking a piece of someone's tumor and testing a bunch of treatments in a lab and being able to come up with the right therapy for that specific patient.
Mary Roach / Author
Bunch
Patient
Personalized
Therapy
Lab
Treatments
Tumor
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I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment.
Eric Davis / Baseball Player
Treatment
Diagnosed
Operated
Reflect
Tumor
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Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect it very, very early, so that it won't kill anybody. We'll zap it at the molecular level decades before it grows into a tumor.
Michio Kaku / Physicist
Cancer
Cold
Decades
Grows
Detect
Different Types
Molecular
Tumor
Types
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That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'
Jim Carrey / Actor
Good Morning
Being Me
Big Deal
Damn
Giving
Pulling
Sides
Trouble
Yeah
Literally
Tumor
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It's been said that mistletoe extract enhances immune function, which increases the production of the immune cells. When administered as a form of therapy for cancer, the extracts are given by injection under the skin, into a vein or directly into a tumor.
Chris Kilham / Author
Cancer
Function
Immune
Therapy
Directly
Enhances
Extract
Increases
Tumor
Vein
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Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection.
George M. Church / Geneticist
Members
Rejection
Restoring
Species
Aside
Bringing
Exchange
Extinct
Genetic
Tumor
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Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.
Geoffrey West / Physicist
Destruction
Slums
Unhealthy
Grown
Organ
Tumor
Ultimately
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Evolution is ultimately why cancer is so deadly. Take two biopsies from different sides of a tumor, and they can be genetically very different, making it that much harder to fight. Variation is the toolbox of evolution, and this variation gives cancer strength.
Kyle Hill /
Cancer
Different Sides
Evolution
Harder
Sides
Variation
Deadly
Genetically
Tumor
Ultimately
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Unfortunately, my dad had a brain tumor, and my father-in-law passed away from leukemia, so I spend a lot of time on those two causes. I also tend to support military charities like Warrior Gateway, which helps guys transition from combat back into civilian life.
Anthony Scaramucci /
Causes
Combat
Father In Law
Leukemia
Warrior
Life Time Dad
Gateway
Charities
Civilian
Unfortunately
Passed
Tumor
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The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell / Journalist
Famous
Benign
Giants
Growth
Caused
Condition
Gland
Throughout
Tumor
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens / Author
Alcohol
Honestly
Millions
Occasional
Particular
People
Smoke
Years
Yourself Your Day
Everyone
Did
Came
Candidate
Every Day
Got
Interruption
Millions Of People
Sixties
Sometime
Tumor
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The doctors misdiagnosed me at first - they told me I had a pinched nerve. But my situation was getting worse. The tumor was cutting off the circulation in my nerves. And in two weeks' time, I was left paralyzed. I went from a cane to crutches to a walker to a wheelchair.
Daniel Jacobs / Professional Boxer
Circulation
Crutches
Cutting
Paralyzed
Two Weeks
Time Me Situation
Cane
Nerve
Tumor
Walker
Wheelchair
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I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.
Mark Ruffalo / Actor
Dreamt
One Morning
Poured
Tumor
Woke
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This is going to sound crazy, but there was a period of time where on TLC they would show those surgeries - like a woman had a 90-pound tumor, or they separated these twins. And my sister and I - she lived in Ohio when I lived in California - would watch them together on the phone.
Shonda Rhimes / Screenwriter
Sister
California
Ohio
Twins
Time Together Crazy
Period
Phone
Separated
Tlc
Tumor
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When people say there is a 'reason' for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not 'cheering up.' The fact is that those who suffer - and those who love them - are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.
Kerry Kennedy / Writer
Depression
Agony
Insult
Patient
Love People Person
Cheering
Suffer
Tumor
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
Hannah Murray / Actress
Broken
Fixing
Imaginary
Mime
Office
Seconds
Surgery
Animals
Bear
Friend
Illnesses
Injuries
Leg
My Friend
Removing
Tumor
Vet
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Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
Charles Duhigg / Writer
Bengali
Charity
Indian
Monica
Village
Disappeared
Mission
Nuns
Placed
Remote
Tumor
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That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me.
Eric Massa / Former U.s. Representative
Chemotherapy
Cold
Cold Weather
Deep Breath
Feels
Left
Liver
Lungs
Radiation
Scar
Take A Deep Breath
Weather
Across
Breath
Cut
Deep
Goes
Walk
Outside
Tissue
Tumor
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Having the brain tumor, coming out of surgery and going through all of that, you're like, I am never going to feel the same and I have this new perspective on life. So much gratitude, life just feels like this enormous treasure. Then that kind of just falls away and you're back being grumpy about having an early morning meeting.
Simone Giertz /
Early Morning
Enormous
Gratitude
Grumpy
New Perspective
Surgery
Treasure
Tumor
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I really wish this wasn't a thing. But this tumor is a thing. Even though it's not what I would have chosen for myself, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be all bad. What I keep trying to remind myself is this is one of those things that looks like a really bad thing on the outside but I know too little about life to be sure.
Simone Giertz /
Chosen
Life Myself Keep
Bad Thing
Remind
Tumor
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If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root cause of the cancer. But it has taken so long to do the sequencing - which also requires time to prepare the samples and interpret the deluge of data that comes out - that the patients are already undergoing therapy by the process if over.
Eric Topol / Cardiologist
Cancer
Data
Deluge
Process
Sequence
Therapy
According
Time Long Process
Cause
Interpret
Patients
Prepare
Requires
Root
Samples
Tailor
Tumor
Undergoing
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With a mammogram - as great as they are, and they do save a lot of lives - if you have very dense breasts, it really can't see if there is something in there. There are other tests, including an MRI, that can really go into the tissue and really see cell formation and hot spots, and that's what you want to see before it becomes a tumor.
Christina Applegate / Film Actress
Breasts
Dense
Formation
Spots
Cell
Tissue
Tumor
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